Restored Witch Hunter Inquisitor and Retinue circa 2005

 

Here's another batch of figures from my Silver Age army of Witch Hunters. I've fixed these up over the last couple of days and the damages are now (hopefully) impossible to notice. I've also had a little bit of a play around with my photographic set up... poor quality as it is. I've switched to a light blue background which is exactly how 'Eavy Metal was presented  back in the '80s. Years ago, I chatted to GW's lensman Phil Lewis about how he photographed minis for publication in our era and I recall he used a second lamp to eliminate shadows. I'll attempt something similar as soon as I've got another one.

I don't recall much about painting this inquisitor. I can recall he was the first model I painted on the project and it certainly shows. I doubt I'd painted anything for years before working on this, though of course he is far superior to that plastic skeleton I attempted just over a year ago.

The shame of him....

I liked the servitor models available back then and I have four different ones now. This one was straight forwards to repair with just the base to reattach and the right leg to bend slightly. Purple was obviously a theme for my Inquisitor as a number of these models are painted with the colour. I am especially pleased with the angled liquids in his hydraulics. I used to pay really close attention back then. Need to again.

I can't quite recall what this figure was suppose to be. A Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus or some such. I nice bit of early freehand here with the scrolls. Thankfully his base too have been cracked but it has been repaired and smoothed out with greenstuff.

Pretty sure that this poor chap to a psychic penitent or some such. The idea was that this meek soul was possessed by the warp and not our Inquisitor. He looks much better now and had been particularly damaged. I straightened out his tentacle rods and gave them a new coat of paint.

The Lord Inquisitor's acolyte. A powerful figure even today. You will probably notice the staff is still bent slightly. This is the best I can get things at the moment with risking further damage. Remarkably his paint work survived intact. 

And finally, two cherubium who needed extensive repairs to attach them once more to the bases. I tried unsuccessfully to glue them back together but the join ended up far too week. In the end, I used a pin vice and paperclip snippings to pin them back together. A few grains of sand and static grass and who's to know!

Orlygg